He is a Communist without question promoting the Communist Manifesto
without calling it so. How shrewd he is in America. His cult of
personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance. They
will continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin and
Stalin in Russia. Obama's fools and Stalin's fools share the same drink
of illusion, says
Xavier Lerma in this article, Obama's Soviet Mistake, at Pravda.

The Holocaust brings to mind visions of docile and helpless Jews being
led to their demise in gas chambers, not visions of determined Jews
fighting to defend their homes against German aggressors. Why did so few
resort to violence to save themselves? For a Jew caught up in the
Holocaust, there were many factors to consider, says
Ian McCollum in this article, An Inquiry into the General Lack of Violent Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust, at A Human Right. This is a must-read, the reasons cited may not only be surprising but valuable to know in the future.

The accrued expense of Medicare and Social Security alone—and most of it
is Medicare—is half the economy each and every year. Put that in your
head and consider that this would mean that just to keep even we would
have to more than triple the existing amount of tax collected, raising
total taxation to more than 60% of the economy! Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org

Here is what I am doing for the rest of the
year—working with every manager in my company so that as of January 1,
2013, none of our employees are working more than 28 hours a week. I
think most readers know the reason—we have got to get our company under
50 full time employees or else I am facing a bill from Obamacare in 2014
that will be several times larger than my annual profit. Warren Meyer at coyoteblog.com

An October 2011 Gallup poll reports nearly half of Americans have at
least one gun in the home. The same report states that support for a
handgun ban is at an all-time low. Women's gun ownership is the highest
it has ever been. In just 10 years, female firearm ownership has
doubled... Even 40 percent of Democrats polled by Gallup say they own a
firearm.CTD Suzanne at cheaperthandirt.com

Diversity - Given
the self-segregation on many campuses evident in race-based
fraternities, clubs, dorms, graduation ceremonies, eating and
socializing areas, and courses in ethnic studies programs devoted to the
culture minority students presumably already know and supposedly can
share with their white classmates, there are not many "educational
benefits" moving in either direction. Bruce Thornton at hoover.org

Take a ride to a welfare neighborhood some fine morning, evenings are
best avoided even in the safest such places. Don't go in expecting
Detroit. Even much of Detroit doesn't look like Detroit. Newark and
Oakland aren't even there yet. Detroit is what happens when the load is
too big and there's no one left to carry it. Most welfare neighborhoods
are still located in cities where there is someone left to pick up the
tab.

You'll see less charred buildings and more towering multistory housing
projects. Some of these are the ugly bestial fortresses that date back
to FDR's championing of affordable housing. One such monster, the
Knickerbocker Village, former home of the Rosenberg spies, had to be
evacuated in the recent hurricane and residents lived without heat and
power for weeks.

30 years later they began to run to twenty story gray and brown towers
that reek of hopelessness. When power company workers came to restore
power to the Brooklyn shoreline, they were sent to these places first in
the hopes of calming mob reaction. Instead televisions came raining
down from the upper floors forcing the workers to flee for safety. But
don't expect that to happen during your visit. That sort of thing is
reserved for major holidays and power outages.

More recently the trend has been smaller homes that look almost like
normal housing, except that there are too many of them lined up all in
rows that go on forever, and even the red brickwork and white doors
quickly darken with neglect, fumes and that intangible pollutant that
comes to all places where the people have nowhere to go and nothing to
look forward to.

There are businesses in the welfare neighborhood, but they aren't really
independent businesses. The bodegas, cheap corner groceries stores
lined with ads for cigarettes, or government ads against them, with malt
liquor ads and posters for a local performance by a rap group, Hong
Kong crooner or Latin singer, get most of their business from food
stamps. The bodegas, despite their name, are usually run by Indians,
Koreans, Arabs or Bangladeshis. The few things they sell for real money
are, in order, lottery tickets, beer and the occasional magazine.

70 years ago the small corner store was part of an economic ladder.
Today it's as static as the rest of the neighborhood. Sometimes the
owners make the jump to a welfare supermarket, that deals almost
entirely in food stamps. Mostly though they are family businesses whose
owners import some of their endless stock of cousins from the home
country as unpaid labor. Sometimes the cousins marry into the family and
open another one of the stores with money advanced by the patriarch of
the clan, and with most of the profits going to him.

Then there are the check cashing places, where welfare checks are
deposited, and money is sent home to Haiti, Mexico or Puerto Rico. These
places too would dry up and go out of business without a steady supply
of government money.

There are clinics, a surplus of them, running on government grants,
taking in government money from their patients, and consisting of the
usual uncomfortable multicultural mix of balanced groups, most of whom
resent each other. There may be no supermarket in the neighborhood, no
store that sells fresh fruit and vegetables, no bank or clothing store
that sells anything more upscale than t-shirts and sneakers, but there
will be several clinics specializing in every conceivable illness a
local could come down with. And several that they can't.

Of the few independent businesses in the area, there will be a
restaurant or two, cheap and dirty, where families troop in at night and
old men sit during the day, there will be churches that young people
rarely go to, and there will be 99 cent stores selling things for more
than that. There will be schools, large buildings, and a variety of
community centers, day care centers, libraries, prep places for
students; all funded by the government. There will be places for teens
to sit playing video games after they leave school, full of inspiring
posters about achievement. And there will be social workers to help
residents fill out forms for more benefits.

Take away government benefits and the welfare neighborhood would become Detroit.

A Florida firefighter is out of a job after putting toilet paper with
President Barack Obama’s face in his fire department’s bathroom.

Clint Pierce, who admitted placing the Obama toilet paper in the
restroom as a “gag,” had until 5:00 p.m. Friday to turn in his badge
after the city of Pompano Beach, Fla. determined his joke was a
disrespectful repeat offense, according to a report from the Sun Sentinel.

The Oct. 19 incident marked the third time Pierce brought political props onto city property, after he was told to stop.

I admit that I am biased in writing this. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee
(D-TX) has to be one of the most ridiculous representatives of the
people of Texas I’ve ever seen. Last week, she once against
demonstrated just how ridiculous she is referenced both Social Security
and Medicare as “solvent” and wondered what all the fuss was about.

According
to the Social Security’s trustees, the federal program has been
operating in the red for the past two years. How’s that for solvent
Rep. Jackson Lee?

She said on the House floor that the Republicans have a “frivolous perspective” on the fiscal perspective.

“So
rather than take, if you will, a frivolous perspective on this, rather
than tell people that you can’t do anything before 2013, rather than
suggest that entitlements are laid upon the table, on the altar as a
sacrifice, just tell the American people the truth,” she said. “Let’s
just tell them the truth.”

“Entitlements is not the issue,”
Jackson Lee continued. “And if so, cool heads can sit down and engage
the American people and tell us how many seniors in nursing homes do we
want to throw out in the street? What options do they have?

“Maybe
we can begin to talk about home care,” the Texas representative said.
“That’s okay, but you don’t talk about home care overnight.

“So,
you have to be deliberative,” she continued. “And then who wants to
make a fuss about Medicare when it’s solvent until 2024? Again, abusing
the information given to the American people.”

Rep. Jackson-Lee said, “Who wants to make a fuss about Social Security when it’s solvent, and it’s about, You earned it?”

She went on to ask, “And then who wants to make a fuss about Medicare when it’s solvent until 2024?”

According to an April 2012 report
from the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees the program ran
deficits for 2010 and 2011 and that the federal government needed to
borrow more money, which would increase the national debt.

“Social
Security’s expenditures exceeded non-interest income in 2010 and 2011,
the first such occurrences since 1983, and the Trustees estimate that
these expenditures will remain greater than non-interest income
throughout the 75-year projection period,” the report said. “Redemption
of trust fund assets from the General Fund of the Treasury will provide
the resources needed to offset the annual cash-flow deficits.”

Sheila
Jackson-Lee continues to demonstrate why she should never hold office,
nor should anyone that thinks like her. She doesn’t know what solvency
is and therefore is incapable of understanding the issue in order to
correct it. The people of her district should really be ashamed of
themselves for electing such a person to represent them.

Every time that I get a Lincoln $5 bill, I am reminded how our nation
stated its downward spiral away from the Constitution. Since my laser
can make rubber stamps, I decided to get the message out concerning the
beginning of tyranny in the United States.

Before hostilities began, Colonel
Baldwin was selected to carry out a private mission, at the direction of
the Virginia Secession convention. His instructions were to meet
with Abraham Lincoln in April 1861 and negotiate a peaceful settlement.
The South was not anxious to go to war and sought to diffuse the
schism between the two regions. The deck was stacked heavily in favor of
the North – their population was at least three times that of the
South; the North had a decided manufacturing advantage; the North a
government, army, navy, etc. Colonel Baldwin found out first hand that
there was one issue where Lincoln would not compromise – taxes!

Lincoln greeted him as follows: “Well,
I suppose this is Colonel Baldwin of Virginia? I have hearn of you a
good deal, and am glad to see you. How d’ye, do sir?” Colonel Baldwin
presented his note of credential or introduction, which Lincoln read,
sitting upon the edge of the bed, and spitting from time to time on the carpet.”

Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces,
mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of
the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins
which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as
money within the United States; or Whoever fraudulently possesses,
passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter,
publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin,
knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired,
diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened – Shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Since Nov. 6, there has been no shortage of opinions as to why
challenger Mitt Romney and the Republican Party failed to ouster
President Barack Obama. Pre-election divisions in the Republican Party
between moderates and conservatives have only widened since Romney’s
defeat and the party’s strategy for the future remains unclear, a source
of contention and heated internal & external debate.

Specifically,
many now wonder what the sobering 2012 election results means for the
right-leaning Tea Party, the champions of personal freedom and smaller
government who exploded on the political scene in the 2010 midterm
elections. The re-election of a progressive like Barack Obama would
seem to signal the end of the conservative Tea Party, but the movement’s
conservative leaders insist that last month’s election results only
vindicate the group’s message.

“The Tea Party is not a political party; it’s an informal community
of Americans who support a set of fiscally conservative issues,” says
FreedomWorks’ Matt Kibbe. “And when you take a look at the roster of
new fiscal conservatives being sent to Congress next year, it’s clear
our issues are winning.”

A new online briefing from a high-level panel of experts, including a
former director of the CIA, unmasks the growing threat posed by an
increasingly troubled China.

After 30 years of annual GPD growth of up to 10 percent, the world’s
most populous nation is facing mounting economic challenges that could
have a significant impact on the United States as well.

The bottom line of the panel discussion: China’s economy is at serious
risk – and the entire world will feel the blow both economically and
even militarily.

“I spend as much time fretting about Chinese failure as I do about
Chinese success, about China being weak as opposed to being strong,”
says panelist Michael Hayden, former director of the Central
Intelligence Agency and a retired 4-star general.

The 4-member panel is moderated by Frank Sesno, director of the School
of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University and a
former CNN Washington bureau chief.

The main focus was on the world’s second-largest economy and how China
might respond to growing problems in sustaining its amazing growth — and
the possibility of escalating tensions between the United States and
China.

Ironically, the panel gathered soon after the Shanghai composite stock market hit its lowest level in 3 1/2 years.

“While it’s been an incredible 30 years, the easy part is over,” says
panelist Steven Cortes, founder of the market research consulting firm
Veracruz LLC and a frequent contributor on CNBC.

“The easy part was exploiting seemingly endless cheap Chinese labor.
They are running out of that labor now as the demographic tide starts to
turn against China. Wage costs are accelerating dramatically. They’re
losing the one advantage that they’ve really exploited to an incredible
degree. So what do they do next?”

Said former Utah Gov. Huntsman: “You can only take the investment-led export machine so far, and it has run its course.”

And Hayden points out that the Chinese people will tolerate the communist leadership only as long as the economy keeps growing.

1] The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle.They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun! ,
braid, or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also
likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not
common targets.

No evidence of this in any piece of literature. The only time I’ve
seen hair pulls is in girl fights and domestic violence incidents.
I’ve never heard of a stranger attack that was initiated by a hair grab
or pull.

2] The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for
women who’s clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry
scissors around to cut clothing

Not true. Clothing may be a factor in some rapists’ justification
(“she was dressed like a slut. she wanted it”), but ease of removal is
not a concern. If so, hospital patients wearing gowns would be the most
raped population in the world. So would any medical professional
wearing scrubs as a uniform. They aren’t.

3] They also look for women using their cell phone, searching
through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they
are off guard and can be easily overpowered.

True

4] The number one place women are abducted from / attacked at is grocery store parking lots.

False. Number one location is in or around the woman’s home.

5] Number three is public restrooms.

Really? Wouldn’t a guy garner a little attention if he entered a woman’s restroom?

6] The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a
woman and quickly move her to a second location where they don’t have
to worry about getting caught.

Possible, but only in a “stranger rape”. Most rapists are people
who are familiar to the victim and the rapes occur at the victim’s home.

7] If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get
discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize
that going after you isn’t worth it because it will be time-consuming.

Partially True

8] These men said they would not pick on women who have
umbrellas,or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in
their hands.

No research supporting this.

9] Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close
to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to
convince these guys you’re not worth it.

True. Punching with keys doesn’t cause much damage and usually hurts the puncher as well.

POINTS THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER:

1] If someone is following behind you on a street or in a garage
or with you in an elevator or stairwell, look them in the face and
ask them a question, like what time is it, or make general small talk:
can’t believe it is so cold out here, we’re in for a bad winter.
Now that you’ve seen their faces and could identify them in a line-
up, you lose appeal as a target.

Maybe, but no guarantee. A better option is to be more forceful and direct in ordering him to get away.

2] If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands in front
of you and yell Stop or Stay back! Most of the rapists this man talked
to said they’d leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she
would not be afraid to fight back. Again, they are looking for an
EASY target.

Good advice…but most effective against strangers.

3] If you carry pepper spray (this instructor was a huge advocate
of it and carries it with him wherever he goes,) yelling I HAVE
PEPPER SPRAY and holding it out will be a deterrent.

No. Keep it hidden until you use it. If you pull it out and
threaten me with it, I’ll cover my eyes, move in and take it from you.

4] If someone grabs you, you can’t beat them with strength but you
can do it by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the waist
from behind, pinch the attacker either under the arm between the elbow
and armpit or in the upper inner thigh – HARD. One woman in a class
this guy taught told him she used the underarm pinch on a guy who
was trying to date rape her and was so upset she broke through the
skin and tore out muscle strands the guy needed stitches. Try
pinching yourself in those places as hard as you can stand it; it really
hurts.

Doesn’t work if the rapist has a diminished pain response, is high, mentally ill, or drunk.

5] After the initial hit, always go for the groin. I know from
a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy’s parts
it is extremely painful. You might think that you’ll anger the guy
and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told our
instructor is that they want a woman who will not cause him a lot of trouble. Start causing trouble, and he’s out of there.

Not a terrible target, but not the best either. Go for eyes or throat.

6] When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first two
fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure
pushing down on them as possible. The instructor did it to me without
using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles
cracked audibly.

May work, but it depends on the situation

7. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car: Kick out the
back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving
like crazy. The driver won’t see you but everybody else will. This
has saved lives.

8 If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from
the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by
pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into
their cars.

Completely false.

9. Look at the car parked on the driver’s side of your vehicle,
and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat
nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and
get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE
SAFE THAN SORRY.

(And better paranoid than dead.)

10. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot).

Generally good, but not always. What if there is a creepy guy in
the elevator? I had a student who was raped in the elevator of her own
office building.

11. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control,
ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100
times; And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN!

George Tucker (1775-1861) is particularly interesting and unusual among
19th-century American philosophers. An attorney and Congressman from
Virginia, Tucker had a bent towards original thinking, which he
expressed in a range of literary genres. He wrote the first biography of
Thomas Jefferson, one of the first major histories of the United
States, the first science fiction novel about the moon (Volume 3 in this
collection), and the first southern US novel. He also wrote several
influential books in economic thought and was a vocal opponent of
slavery.

While in Congress, he published a collection of essays on
philosophical and political subjects, which attracted the attention of
Jefferson who subsequently appointed him as the first professor of moral
philosophy at the University of Virginia. Tucker believed that the
state of philosophy in the United States was largely undeveloped and he
attempted to address this deficiency. Near the end of his life he
published a collection of pamphlets, lectures and essays on philosophy
that he had written throughout his career. His essays grapple with many
of the central problems of philosophy

==============================

Author Henry C. White of the University of
Georgia relates below that: “Deep thinkers were the men of the
plantations; wide readers, keen observers and profound reasoners.” Not
accustomed to widely publish their thoughts on great philosophical
topics, their views were usually “disseminated through oral discussion
with friends and neighbors and hospitably-received visitors from abroad
upon the great patriarchal estates, by voluminous correspondence, by
family teaching, and in the schools and colleges…..manned by instructors
of the same modest and retiring type.”

Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
www.ncwbts150.com
"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"

Southern Contributions to Philosophy:

“And yet, if the aim of the highest philosophy be the apprehension of
the fundamental and eternal principles of governing right living and
determining the relations of man to God, his neighbor and Nature, the
ideals of conduct exemplified by the men of the South in their
individual lives and their social relations, born of their close
observation and thoughtful reasoning and commended to their children and
their immediate communities, must have had an influence upon current
local thought and upon the development of the communal life even greater
than that which would have been afforded by technical investigation and
publication, no matter how profound.

It is not contended, by any means, that exemplary living was universal
throughout the South, nor is it denied that its peculiar social
institutions involved something of evil to all concerned and something
of injustice in the classification of peoples’ consequent thereon.

But all observers are agreed that, from its early settlement to the time
when its intellectual energies were absorbed in the great political
disputes which led to the War of Secession, the thought of the South and
its communal spirit were directed and dominated by the quiet and
profound thinkers of the great plantations and the superb examples of
ethical living which they afforded. Perhaps, therefore, the noteworthy
and peculiar contribution of the South to philosophy in its early
history was the creation and the fine effort at realization of high
ideals of human conduct based upon the essential and immutable
principles of truth, equity and justice.

The great teachers of the schools and colleges of the South of the
period, many of whom, after the fashion of the times, were clergymen as
well, held to these ideals and exalted them in the estimation of their
pupils and thus, although contributing but little to the literature of
philosophy, they impressed upon the community at large a truly
philosophic mode of thought which subsequently became creative and now
bids fair to become highly and richly productive.

The various philosophical movements in America became sectionalized in
their broader aspects, the North standing for idealism, while the South
stood for materialism and the middle West for the philosophy of common
sense. [The] earlier writers of the South were some whose works are
worthy to rank as original and valuable contributions to the technical
literature of philosophy. The Essays, Moral and Philosophical, of the
brilliant and versatile George Tucker (1775-1861), the biographer of
Thomas Jefferson and for many years professor of philosophy at the
University of Virginia, contain, among many other reflections which are
valuable, a treatment of the Will which is strikingly original and
suggestive.

Other native materialists of the South [were] Joseph Buchanan
(1785-1812)….,another early materialist was Thomas Cooper
(1758-1840)….,another was Frederick Beasley (1777-1845), who was born in
North Carolina…., John Berry Gorman (1793-1864) of South
Carolina….Thomas Lanier Clingman (1812-1897) of North Carolina….Another
type of contribution of this period which should be taken into
account….is furnished by writers of the character of Joseph LeConte and
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, some of whose works are more philosophic
than scientific.”

(The South’s Contributions to Philosophy, Henry C. White, The South in
the Building of the Nation, Volume VII, Southern Publication Society of
Richmond, 1909, pp. 261-265)

She got taken apart in the comments, so pulled the piece, got reamed for that, then put it back up with a SYOA letter. Heh.:)

First, an admission: I have ignored National Geographic’s The Doomsday Preppers since it debuted in February. There are lots of ‘reality’ shows out there (I am personally fond of Top Chef and Project Runway),
but being in the business of dealing with disasters on a regular basis,
watching it seemed like a busman’s holiday – and a ‘way-over-the-top’
one at that.

What drew it to my attention was my friend David Burns, CEM.
David has lots of experience in emergency management and response and
my respect forever, even if there have been times we disagree on the
details. For example, I passed on an offer from the producers of the
History Channel documentary “After Armageddon” in early 2010 and recommended they talk to David. David had the best line in the final cut: he said “We’re gonna die and there isn’t a whole lot we can do about it.” Blunt, but brilliant.
(BTW: You can still buy that video or watch it on YouTube.)

Doomsday Preppers took the concept and made it a reality show, with
real people talking about how they are preparing for their own personal
vision of a catastrophe. It is the highest rated show EVERon the National Geographic channel – beating such offerings as Border Wars and Dog Whisperer.

In the response to hurricane Sandy, Occupy Wall Street supporters
have shown that voluntary, decentralized mutual aid is far more
effective than government programs and agencies like FEMA.
At one point, pictures were taken of occupy sandy volunteers feeding FEMA workers who couldn’t even find supplies for themselves.

Now, super villain and globalist Mayor Bloomberg in New York is
thanking them for their service to the community by ordering a raid and
eviction on a shelter that they have helped set up and have been using
as a base of operations.

For some background information on this case, this message was posted to the occupy wall street website just a few days before:

“This Friday morning Staten Island police representing
the mayor’s office have threatened eviction action against the crucial
Staten Island hub at 489 Midland Avenue, in the heavily hit Midland
Beach area.
Aiman Youssef, a 42-year-old Syrian-American Staten Islander whose
house was destroyed in the hurricane, has been running a 24/7 community
pop up hub outside his property at 489 Midland Avenue since the day
after the storm.
He and a coalition of neighbors, friends and community members are
serving hot food and offering cleaning supplies, non-perishables,
medical supplies, and clothing to the thousands of residents who are
still without heat, power, or safe housing.
This popular hub is well-run, well-staffed, and has a constant hum of
discussion, support, and advice as well as donations and pick ups and
volunteer dispatch through another pop-up group, volunteers who call
themselves “The Yellow Team.”

This approach that Occupy Wall Street has been taking, of competing
with inefficient government monopolies, is a strategy called agorism.

Recently i wrote an article about how Occupy Wall Street has been adopting this approach in a lot of their recent projects.
This strategy is so effecti
ve and makes the government look so
incompetent and obsolete that it is no surprise that they are showing
this kind of force to preserve the false legitimacy of their monopolies.

Occupy Wall Street outshining FEMA in the wake of a natural disaster
is reminiscent of actions taken by an agorist in early American history,
Lysander Spooner.

Lysander Spooner
was an outspoken philosopher, abolitionist, and voluntaryist during the
19th century who was not only a brilliant author and speaker, but he
also started a letter delivering service to compete with the government
post office, which out-shined the state monopoly until it was forced out
of business.

GiraDora is a patent-pending human-powered washer and spin dryer to
increase the efficiency and improve the experience of hand-washing
clothes. The user sits on top of the drum-like appliance and pumps a
pedal with her foot, which agitates, cleans, rinses, then spins-dries
clothes. While providing a more comfortable, ergonomic, and efficient
way to clean clothes, GiraDora also affords opportunities to generate
income. For under $40, GiraDora more than doubles productivity,
increases health of women and children, and affords the opportunity to
begin breaking the poverty cycle.

We've also just created a
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U.S. Steel is laying off more than 100 workers at its McKeesport Tubular Operations plant.

Several people called WTAE Channel 4 Action News on Friday morning and said they got layoff notices.
"As
a result of business conditions, including the negative effect of the
high level of tubular imports (many of which we believe to be unfairly
traded), we are adjusting production at our McKeesport Tubular
Operations. This adjustment in production will impact approximately 142
hourly employees."

President Obama won the popular vote by 50.6 percent. OK, those of
you that voted for him, you won. But you did not win the lottery. Here's
what you won.

You won a president who wants unlimited federal
spending powers with no federal debt ceiling. Would you give unlimited
credit to a person who has maxed out all of their credit cards? If you
say yes, then respectfully, you are a fool.

You won a president
who is asking Congress to spend an additional $50 billion for
unidentified projects. This would of course be the same Congress that
has not passed a budget since 2009. Do you run your finances without a
budget, or at least some idea of how you are going to make ends met?
Well, you probably don't.

You won a president who wants to raise taxes by $1.6 trillion over 10 years,
while telling you that it will help reduce the deficit. Do the math
folks. That's not true. It would raise minimal revenue and cause a big
decrease in employment and the creation of new jobs. All you have to do
is to look at the real history of tax increases. But you see, President
Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi know you don't know the history, and
they figure you are too gullible to learn.

Obama voters, you
won a president who is still campaigning, so he can keep using the
lapdog mainstream media to tell you what he wants you to believe instead
of telling you the truth. Strip away your preconceived notions about
media channels that Obama told you not to watch, and you just might
learn something.

You also won a coming fiscal cliff disaster,
because Obama knows he can let it happen and you will agree with him
that it's all the fault of the Republicans. You drank the Kool-Aid for
four years, so he expects you to just keep on drinking to the very last
drop.

Except, the very last drop this time will mean a lot of
economic pain and suffering for a lot of families, namely, no jobs! It
will mean that our nation's credit rating will most likely be downgraded
again. It will also mean that gas prices will go back up and stay up,
and that federal spending will continue to get bigger, while the size of
our economy gets smaller.

The very last drop will also mean
more turmoil in the rest of the world, because of the continued loss of
respect for America's economic and military strength, due to this
president's inability to lead decisively and forcefully.

Obama
voters, you won! But do you like the prize? Read this commentary again
in two years and let me know. God willing, I will still be here writing,
on the radio and TV explaining what I have been saying for the last
four years.

The
final vote on whether or not to ratify the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities is scheduled for noon on Tuesday, December 4.

Whether
our nation will continue to preserve the principles of parental rights
and American self-government, or whether we will jettison these in a
“symbolic gesture” of support for disabled persons around the world will
be decided at that time.

We are optimistic that we will have the votes – 34 or more – to defeat the treaty. But there is too much at stake to trust to speculation.

So please remember to call your senators today, and then call them again tomorrow morning (before noon).

“I would urge the Senator to oppose giving consent to
ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities. This treaty would surrender the rights of parents whose
children are disabled, by establishing the ‘best interests of the child’
legal standard. We already have excellent American-made law to protect
persons with disabilities, and the world is already NOT following our
example. It would be foolish to adopt a vehicle of international law in
hopes that they will suddenly change their minds. This treaty also
redefines entitlements as ‘economic, social, and cultural rights,’ which
would have a tremendous impact on a host of domestic law issues.

Protect parental rights and American self-government, and
reject this giant step toward socialism and government control of our
families. Vote NO on the CRPD.”

We will be watching and listening very closely, and we will alert you to the results of the vote tomorrow as quickly as we are able. We are hopeful that the news will be good – but we must all remain diligent between now and then.

Thank you for taking a moment right now and again tomorrow to call your Senators to oppose this dangerous treaty!

We have posted the latest monthly issue of the North Carolina Crime Report by Suspected Illegal Aliens on our website; www.NCFIRE.info. This report covers crimes by suspected illegal aliens in N.C. for the month of November. It is 117 pages long! It can be viewed online as a pdf file here: http://ncfire.info/november2012.pdf.

This
is not ALL of the crimes by suspected illegal aliens in N.C. and we do
not report every crime, in every county, every month. This is just a
random monthly sampling.

If
you want immigration laws enforced in N.C., it is impreative that you
attend the next N.C. House Select Committee on Immigration Policy
meeting, occuring this Thursday, December 6th @ 1:00 p.m. The meeting
will be held in rm. 643 of the Legislative Office Bldg, behind the
General Assembly Bldg in Raleigh, N.C.

This ongoing illegal alien crime wave against N.C. citizens has got to stop. It is killing us: financially, emotionally and physically.

For things that you can do to help, please visit our website: www.ncfire.info. It costs you nothing to join and we never ask for your money!

Author’s note: This is a special supplement of a multi-part interview with
a government insider intimately familiar with the events that took
place in Benghazi. It is important to note that the information
contained in this series was developed from interviews that spanned over
100 hours. My source requested that the following information be
written separately due to its importance.

DH: You told me that you wanted to talk
about the lies behind Benghazi, said it is critical for everyone to
understand the reason for the lies. and asked that we do this
separately. Go ahead.

II: It’s about the lie, and once you understand it, it becomes
extremely revealing. It’s about what the public has been told from the
very beginning. Do you realize that a lot of people, especially Obama’s
associates and supporters do not believe that they’ve been lied to? Do
you understand that much of the public does not believe that they were
lied to? Like a lot of us, you’re in this thing so deep that we forget
not everyone even believes they’ve been lied to. They’re certainly not
going to hear about it in the media.

To understand how deep this goes,
how important it is, and why it is so important, we’ve got to go back to
the very beginning.

Think back to when we were first told that Ambassador Stevens, Sean
Smith, Glen Dougherty, Tyrone Woods were killed in Benghazi. The media
reported that Stevens and the others were killed in an attack on the
American consulate in Benghazi. Every major media outlet identified the
location of the attack as an American consulate, much like this Reuters report and this from The Washington Times. But there was no U.S. consulate in Benghazi, so where did this information originate?

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.

Thank you

I would just like you to know how so very glad I am that I found your blog. I have learned more history from you and the many links that you post than I have from reading all my history books. I can never thank you enough for the education you are freely giving me. It is priceless. And eye opening.

Many times I will not comment, but that does not mean I am not reading and learning.

You sir, are an educator. Thank you.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

Good morning Mr. Townsend,

Just to let you know I have finally finished that massive tome on General Lee. I never knew 1/10th of what a great man he was. No wonder the South is so proud of him! So sad that we have few men of his caliber today. We need them desperately. I have learned more history through you and your blog than I thought I could ever learn. I am very grateful to you. Thank you so much for taking time to answer my e-mail. And thank you for your blog and for opening my eyes.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

".......So good to hear from you! And also so pleased you are converting more of us Yankees! You have no idea how many people you have taught. And how many are so grateful to you for showing us the truth."

Your faithful friend,

Phylis

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I have also learned from Brock Townsend and two nurses lately, that appreciation expressed by someone for whom you have great respect overwhelms the lack of appreciation by some from whom you expect it. I believe that we cannot really know which small bit of help makes the life-saving difference. ﻿

I have learned more history from you than all the years I was supposed to be in school (and not out hunting or fishing).

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I really must say, I like thousands of others have said, your blog is the best out there and with all of your history and experience, you should run for *president. I look forward to reading your blog every day and every day I learn from you. Thank you for the time you put into this effort .

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